How do management and restoration needs of mountain grasslands depend on moisture regime? Experimental study from north-western Slovakia (Western Carpathians)

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-282

  Galvánek, Dobromil ^a   Lepš, Jan ^b,c  

^a DAPHNE R Institute of Applied Ecology   (El Salvador)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Hay meadows; Management planning; Nature conservation; PRC; RDA; Species composition; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249088677     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2009.01022.x     Document Type: Article

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